TRPG General Chat

1:36 AM

hey there @Quentin

1:54 AM

... that moment when you realize you're over a thousand messages behind in chat, then give up and skim.

@Anaphory Never played Microscope, but this reminds me of the awesome game 1000 blank white cards

hey there @JoelHarmon, how're things going?

RP wise, pretty crazy

@JoelHarmon how so?

@JoelHarmon That's what the stars are for.

Sunday was my first go at Great Ork Gods; yesterday was a trial run on 7th Sea 2nd ed; tomorrow is another game of Great Ork Gods

1:56 AM

Shiny!

@Shalvenay Do you think Great Ork Gods would be a thing to try with VI?

@BESW I'm not sure -- thematically, the game would be rather...off kilter for me.

Honestly, I think it'd be good to put you off kilter in an environment where we can talk about why that's so and what it means and how to react to it.

@Shalvenay the whole thing of your character dying?

@BESW I'm aware of the stars, but I also think it's valuable to skim anyway; you had an interesting conversation on the nature of identity that I'd have entirely missed if I stuck with just the zingers that are stars

@JoelHarmon True, I'm not sure why nothing there got starred.

1:59 AM

@trogdor less that and more the overall theme of the game

(or most likely dying anyway)

@trogdor Nah, it's more about how the point of being Orks is to do silly things in an inefficient manner.

ah ok

maybe it was the players/DM, but my Orks ended up mostly very violent, rather than just stupid

though there was a sign post that ended hilariously

Oh yeah. Orks are deeply violent.

The game works because they're acceptable targets.

2:01 AM

personally, I appreciated the very small amount of work it takes to make an Ork, and the emphasis on how unimportant it is if your Ork dies, but how actually cool it is if they do awesome things and survive afterwards

@BESW yeah, and the only way orcish folk become acceptable targets to me is by making themselves into acceptable targets through behavior

@Shalvenay Right, and that's what the game is about.

In our first session the whole motive of the Orks was "Those gnomes are singing and we don't like singing, so let's go raid their camp."

Orks don't even care about other Orks.

I think they were Halflings actually

You may be right.

not that it matters much

I still fondly remember how my very first Ork died immediately upon the first action he tried to take

2:05 AM

Little happy singing folk with too many bright colours.

the plot hook for the Sunday game was "I'm not entirely convinced the gods are pleased with us, so we should go find an elf temple to destroy. I think there's one that way."

it got me into the swing of the game

that was followed up with "Why aren't you running yet? Are you some kind of coward??"

@trogdor yeah, the example story has the first thing be a roll against death

Yeah, Troggy's first Ork charged down a hill, hit a gopher hole, cartwheeled into a rock head-first, and his corpse tumbled the rest of the way down.

@BESW hrm. still kinda on the edge about it

2:09 AM

my players ended up tying corpses together with swords sticking out, intending to roll it down a hill

that ended up containing three orks and a few goblins

more allies than enemies, really

I felt curiously powerless to stop them, actually

and the spite mechanic was really interesting

hey there @KorvinStarmast

2:28 AM

@BESW I mean -- it sounds kinda fun, but kinda almost too senseless at the same time

@Shalvenay Hello, I am browsing Aviation.SE, it's an interesting site. How are things with you?

@KorvinStarmast alright here, would be better if not for a dead PC sitting over in the family office :P (SATA controller on the motherboard went kablooie)

@Shalvenay Ouch. So far, knock on wood, my years old Sager is doing nicely. Wife uses an Ipad, not a PC ... Thank Goodness. She's not a tech person.

@KorvinStarmast ah. I have parts to get it fixed/upgraded on the way

@Shalvenay Pronunciation question on your handle. Accent in first, second, or third syllable?

2:35 AM

@KorvinStarmast first is how I pronounce it

@Shalvenay And now I shall also, I had it wrong using second ... too many years of spanish class.

no worries laughs it's a product of my built-in random-name-gen

@Shalvenay Mine's the first dead character in 5e D&D. RIP, Korvin, thine immortality is only in the internet.

@KorvinStarmast ah. who/what was he, and how'd he get toasted?

@Shalvenay We got surrounded and our dwarf paladin could not hit anything. I ended up, as he did, as ogre dung. The rest fled with 1 HP or so. The two of us re rolled.

2:46 AM

@KorvinStarmast ah. who/what was your char?